About This Book

Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms is part of a documentation set that provides a significant portion of
the Oracle Solaris system administration information. This guide primarily contains information about booting x86
based systems. However, some information pertains to both the x86 and SPARC platforms.

This book assumes you have completed the following tasks:

Installed Oracle Solaris 11

Set up all the networking software that you plan to use

Note - This Oracle Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of
processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Oracle Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists. This document cites any
implementation differences between the platform types.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems
running the Oracle Solaris 11 release. To use this book, you should have
1–2 years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses
might be helpful.

How the System Administration Guides Are Organized

Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the
System Administration Guides.

Using Oracle
Solaris commands, booting and shutting down a system, managing user accounts and groups,
managing services, hardware faults, system information, system resources, and system performance, managing software,
printing, the console and terminals, and troubleshooting system and software problems

Resource management features, which enable you
to control how applications use available system resources; Oracle Solaris Zones software partitioning technology,
which virtualizes operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications;
and Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, which host Oracle Solaris 10 environments running on
the Oracle Solaris 11 kernel

SMB
service, which enables you to configure an Oracle Solaris system to make SMB
shares available to SMB clients; SMB client, which enables you to access SMB
shares; and native identity mapping service, which enables you to map user and
group identities between Oracle Solaris systems and Windows systems

ZFS storage pool and file
system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to
protect ZFS files, using ZFS on an Oracle Solaris system with zones installed,
emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface

Description

Example

AaBbCc123

The
names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen
computer output

machine_name%su

Password:

aabbcc123

Placeholder: replace with a real name or value

The command to
remove a file is rmfilename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new terms, and terms to
be emphasized

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

A cache is a copy
that is stored locally.

Do not save the file.

Note: Some emphasized items appear bold
online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for
shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default
system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle
Solaris release.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell

Prompt

Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell

$

Bash shell, Korn shell, and
Bourne shell for superuser

#

C shell

machine_name%

C shell for superuser

machine_name#

General Conventions

Be aware of the following conventions used in this book.

When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-quotes (`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown.

The key referred to as Return is labeled Enter on some keyboards.

The root path usually includes the /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, and /etc directories, so the steps in this book show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute paths in the examples.